Never run while crossing the street. You could fall down and get run over by a car.

My Mom told me the same thing. To this day, I still have recurring nightmares of falling down with an oncoming car speeding toward me.

So many of these "facts" (and I use that term loosely) are experienced by a lot of us. Even though they make no sense whatsoever. I wonder if Dr. Spock had a book titled "Stupid things you should tell your children in hopes of traumatizing them for life"?

Maybe not, John, but close. My great uncle tripped while running with scissors. He missed his eyes but they went into his skull. That he lived is amazing. That he suffered no brain damage was a miracle. NOW how do you feel?

My mother fell with a coke bottle (glass one) when she was a kid. She apparently spent years training her eye to focus. She had a lazy eye (wandered when she didn't concentrate) until the day she died.

Originally Posted by Wayner

BTW, when I was very young, my parents told me that if I ate boogers that worms would grow in my stomach.

I have been trying to come up with really good booger threats for my nose escavating 4 yr old grandaughter...this thread is giving me ideas. I have told her that it's "nose dirt" - her response? She likes to..uh...ingest dirt. I have told her that it will make her nose bleed. Her response? I like my nose to bleed...would I get to go to the hospital?

MollyRose, my mother had a similar one...except she didn't identify what would actually happen to me if I sat on the concrete. I assumed the ailment was hemorrhoids (or "piles" as she called them??)...but I never wanted to ask her for details. Wish I would have asked her...my post would be way more interesting if I knew what I was talking about

My mom told me I would get arthritis, or a "cold in my kidneys"...WTF would that feel like?

All my life, I have felt destiny tugging at my sleeve.~ Thursday NextI don't want to "go with the flow". The flow just washes you down the drain. I want to fight the flow.- Henry RollinsAll this spiritual talk is great and everything...but at the end of the day, there's nothing like a pair of skinny jeans. - Jillian Michaels

Maybe not, John, but close. My great uncle tripped while running with scissors. He missed his eyes but they went into his skull. That he lived is amazing. That he suffered no brain damage was a miracle. NOW how do you feel?

Did they ever get the scissors out? Or just leave them sticking out of his head as a reminder?

My parents were just cruel:

1. On your 7th birthday you will turn into a boy. (Don't think I wasn't checking for that one all day!)
2. I always got the "clean your plate" threat.
3. When I asked what the reflectors on the sides of the roads were for, my dad said they were full of sand, so if your car slid off the icy road you could dig sand out and use it for traction. I've never checked --